Eating Noodles

Chang Ping ignored Shen Xiu, shut the door, and strode away.

"You brute!" Shen Xiu huffed. She tidied herself up and got ready to get out of bed.

The academy wasn't like home. There were no maids or servants to wait on her, so she had to wash up and take care of everything herself.

Chang Ping had gotten her so dirty that she'd been longing for a proper bath. Now that he was gone and wouldn't bother her, she could finally wash herself clean and come out smelling sweet.

As she took a bathtub out of her Space Ring, she happened to spot her intermediate Soul Crystal.

She'd always kept it in the dressing case in her bedroom, so Chang Ping hadn't stolen it.

Now that she'd moved to the academy, she'd naturally brought the dressing case with her.

"There's still time." On a whim, Shen Xiu decided to test her Soul Force.

She hadn't tested it in a long time, not since Chang Ping had taken her virginity.

After counting the glowing dots in the crystal, Shen Xiu let out a small gasp.

"Why has my Soul Force increased by thirteen points?" Shen Xiu thought hard. Chang Ping had been harassing her these past few days, and she'd barely cultivated her Soul Force.

Chang Ping had taken her chastity, leaving her unable to cultivate the Bloodthirsty Demonic Art. He'd also stolen the two hundred thousand she'd saved in secret, so she couldn't afford pills to improve her cultivation.

How had her Soul Force increased so much? The boost was even greater than what she'd get from taking ten Spirit Nurturing Pills.

In Glory City, there were two kinds of pills that could improve Soul Force. One was the Soul Gathering Pill, used to condense a Soul Aura. It could help an Apprentice Demon Spirit Master break through to one-star Bronze rank, and each pill cost several thousand Demon Spirit Coins.

A typical family in Glory City spent only a little over two thousand Demon Spirit Coins a year. That showed just how precious these pills were.

The other kind was called a Spirit Nurturing Pill. It was even more potent than a Soul Gathering Pill, and more expensive too, costing over ten thousand Demon Spirit Coins each. Only direct descendants of Magnate Families and Peak Families could afford such costly pills.

Though Shen Xiu didn't hold a high position in her family, she'd been lucky enough to take a few. Each time, she'd gained only one or two points of Soul Force.

"What in the world is going on?" Shen Xiu held the gleaming crystal, completely baffled.

Apart from being bullied by Chang Ping these past few days, she hadn't done anything out of the ordinary.

Could her Soul Force have increased because she'd been bullied?

Shen Xiu shook her head.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! That's ridiculous! How could I have such a shameless thought?"

Shen Xiu put the crystal away and stopped thinking about her Soul Force.

After setting up the bathtub, she picked up a wooden bucket and left the room.

The fat dorm supervisor, who was sweeping the hallway, froze when he saw Shen Xiu emerge from a male instructor's dorm room.

"What are you looking at? Keep staring and I'll gouge your eyes out!" Shen Xiu glared at the supervisor viciously, her tone nasty.

The fat supervisor gave an awkward smile and turned away.

He didn't dare provoke this young lady from the Sacred Family.

After Shen Xiu turned the corner with her bucket, the fat supervisor lumbered along the footprints in the hallway until he reached the room she'd left.

"Hm? What's this..." The fat supervisor rubbed his eyes. "Am I seeing things? Why did she come out of Chang Ping's dorm?"

Perhaps she'd been tutoring Chang Ping, and it had gotten too late, so she'd stayed the night.

The fat supervisor quickly came up with a reasonable explanation.

He was certain that a proud noblewoman like Shen Xiu would never fall for a poor brat like Chang Ping, let alone put up with a life of scraping by on coarse food. He'd lived most of his life and knew nobles' ways very well.

"Still, Chang Ping must have some pull if he can get Shen Xiu to tutor him!" The fat supervisor rubbed his chubby chin, narrowed his eyes, and clicked his tongue in amazement.

Suddenly, his big ears twitched. He heard a set of crisp footsteps.

Shen Xiu was back!

He hurriedly grabbed his broom, turned away, and went on sweeping.

"Get lost, you fat pig! If I come out and see you hanging around my door again, I'll cut off all that disgusting fat and feed it to the dogs!"

At her words, the fat supervisor reacted as if his backside were on fire. He slung the broom over his shoulder and sprinted off, moving unbelievably fast.

After chasing away the lecher who'd tried to peep at her, Shen Xiu snorted, carried in a bucket of hot water, and went into the room.

Meanwhile, on the street outside the academy, Chang Ping had sold off all the Horned Sheep spoils he'd obtained yesterday afternoon.

There was so much of it that the merchant had knocked down the price a little. He'd gotten only fifteen thousand Demon Spirit Coins.

Chang Ping didn't want to waste time going from shop to shop, so he readily accepted.

After emptying his large Space Ring, Chang Ping put the Demon Spirit Coins into his small Space Ring and planned to grab breakfast somewhere along the street.

After a night of digestion, there probably wasn't even a scrap of Horned Sheep meat left in his stomach.

Rubbing his empty belly, Chang Ping began strolling through the streets.

The streets were bustling with people coming and going. Though it was only the mao hour, between five and seven in the morning, most shops were already open.

"One bowl of plain noodles, extra plain, extra noodles!" Chang Ping found a breakfast stall and sat down.

The vendor laughed at Chang Ping's joke and said cheerfully, "Sorry, sir, we only have noodles, no plain. How about I add some extra scallions?" Scallions were cheap.

"Sure." Chang Ping nodded and secretly swallowed.

As he waited impatiently for the vendor to serve up his noodles, he suddenly spotted Nie Li, Lu Piao, and Du Ze walking together into a pharmacy.

"What are they going there for? Did Nie Li's hemorrhoids flare up, and he's going to buy painkillers?" Chang Ping thought spitefully. He didn't like that old geezer Nie Li at all.

He was hundreds of years old, and yet he liked teenage girls!

Real criminal!

In modern times, he'd be executed by firing squad for half an hour.

Come to think of it, Nie Li's woman was the mature, grown-up Zi Yun from his previous life, not the naive, inexperienced little Zi Yun from this life.

She didn't even know Nie Li, and she'd never shared hardships with him. He'd shamelessly clung to her and tried to take advantage of her. It was downright beastly.

If Chang Ping were him, he'd do everything he could to improve his cultivation, kill the Saint Emperor, and find a way to bring the grown-up Zi Yun back to life, instead of pestering the younger Zi Yun.

Strictly speaking, the grown-up Zi Yun and the younger Zi Yun weren't even the same person.

"Anyway, I won't let that old geezer Nie Li hurt my deskmate." Chang Ping swore to himself.

Soon, a steaming bowl of plain noodles was set before him.

Chang Ping picked up the bowl, opened his cavernous maw, and downed the noodles in one gulp.

"Thump!" Chang Ping set the bowl on the table and shouted, "I didn't even taste it! Another bowl! No, ten bowls!"

He felt like Zhu Bajie wolfing down a ginseng fruit.

"G-guest... aren't you afraid of burning yourself eating like that?" the vendor stammered. The noodles had just come out of boiling water.

"What are you calling me? You're the pig!"

Chang Ping was angry!

"I just have a high cultivation and don't fear boiling-hot food."